Home alone: Abandoned boy rescued by police

Boy says he was from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, his mother left him in town and he did not know where she was.

NAGAR PARKAR: A 12-year-old boy identified as Bilawal was rescued by the police on Friday. They claim that he was from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. While talking to the media, Bilawal said that his mother left him in town and he did not know where she was. He added that his father, a drug user, used to hit both of them. Ashraf Khoso, who works for Edhi, said that the boy will be sent to Karachi if his parents did not come to collect him.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 27^th, 2012.